Graphics in Lua - an example using the gd libraryIn answer to the question "how would you generate graphics from Lua?" ... I would (personally) look at a binding to the gd library - http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-gd/ - as this is an excellent library, under the MIT license so there's no issue with ongoing licensing being different to Lua's.
This ...

Training in LuaI'm always keeping my ears and eyes open for up and coming languages, and earlier this week the subject of lua came up. Lua is a procedural programming language, written as long ago as 1993, which has gained a degree of popularity of late. It's written in a subset of ANSI C and C++ to give it maximum ...

Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)Here are a handful of "one line" answers from the end of the Lua Course I was running at the end of last week
• Command line parameters in Lua are available to the program in an indexed table called arg. (Sample Program)
• Functions in Lua can look at the number and type of parameters they're ...

Lua Course - here is the indexIf you want to look something up in a book, you'll probably use the index. And so it is in Lua that if you want to look something up in a table (the collection structure in Lua), you'll use an index too.
We have just announced our Public Lua Course - it's a natural for us, as we specialise in niche, ...